Book smells wonderfully of beeswax. Author's name from leaf M4 recto: Francisco Lopez de Gomera ... compuesto vn libro yntitulado la ystoria de las Indias con la conquista de Mexico

Same setting of type as the Saragossa issue of 1552 with title: La istoria de las Indias. y conquista de Mexico

Issued as part of: Primera y segunda parte dela historia general de las Indias. Saragossa : Miguel Capila, 1553. Publication statement taken from title page of the collective work

Colophon: Fue impressa ... en casa de Agustin Millan. y acabose vispera de Nauidad año de mil y quinentos y cinquenta y dos en la muy noble y leal ciudad de Çaragoça

Signatures: a-z A-M

Leaf lxxj misfoliated lxviij

Title page illustration: coat of arms

There is a cancel slip with the words "rei de Tezcuco" pasted on leaf o1 recto beneath the heading of 2nd column

Contains a brief list of Nahuatl words: leaves cxvij verso-cxix recto

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy has cancel slip on leaf o1 partially removed revealing the word "ygualar"; coat of arms on the title page is hand-colored

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